Microsoft Expression Blend 2.5 (2.1.1535.0) June Preview  beta

Publisher's Description:

Microsoft Expression Blend (formerly Expression Interactive Designer) helps you create streamlined, innovative and just plain beautiful applications. Users experience increased satisfaction, while you develop in a flexible, productive environment. Create engaging, cinematic user interfaces with a rich design environment that combines multiple media elements including vectors, pixel images, 3D content, video & audio, high quality text, and animation. Contextualize content by applying custom styles and layout to optimize the experience.

Drive seamless collaboration with developers using Visual Studio and maximize the integrity of designs by sharing the common WinFX platform during prototype, design, and development stages of building advanced UI and applications. Deliver exciting next generation user experiences that leverage the full capabilities of the Windows platform to provide greater overall performance, improved usability, and increased customer satisfaction.

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Reviewer:	Paradise-FH-	Jun 9, 2008
Version:	2.5 (2.1.1535.0) June Preview
i don't think design will ever be a fullfeatured photo editing app. it's meant to be more of an "illustrator for the web" ... use illustrator if you don't like design. this version seems to squash a few pull your hair out bugs and adds some nice "states" editing (e.g. mouseover, click, etc.) for assets in wpf and sl 2 projects. getting better. still has a long way to go though.
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Reviewer:	Sloeberke	Jun 9, 2008
Version:	2.5 (2.1.1535.0) June Preview
I give it a 1 only because of the limited possibilities of Expression Design. If I go for Expression, then it is for the whole package. And Expression Design does not compare to other Photo-Editing software yet (by far not). The available tools are just too limited and inadequate. Therefore no Expression from me for the whole bunch.
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Reviewer:	kise	Mar 20, 2007
Version:	1.0 RC
Windows Presentation Foundation = WPF. If you don't know what WPF is, you probably don't know what Expression Blend is. (so I wonder why people do rate this app??) Expression Blend is a Microsofts XAML designer for .NET FrameWork 3.0 (with CRL 2.0). The XAML generated projects are compatible with next gen Visual Studio "Orcas" and WPF/E CRL (yes, the WPF/E CRL is a light version of CRL 2.0). My Rate is 4, the XML design suitable with FrameWork 3.0 WPF & Web apps is greate, but this should be a part of Visual Studio for developers (Quiz to Microsoft: Guess who's creating all User Interfaces before Art Directors get their hands on applications?)
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Reviewer:	DCohen726	May 17, 2006
Version:	March 2006 CTP
where can I download windows presentation foundation 6? It says its needed for this program.
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Reviewer:	The MAZZTer	Jan 25, 2006
Version:	January 2006 CTP
Initially wowed me... but now it crashes with a NullReferenceException every time I run it. It's a CTP I know but... something this big should've been addressed. Or at least it should've been trapped and more gracefully handled.
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